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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.

Jocko Willink

It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team

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